IP Australia has released the latest edition of its Intellectual Property Government Open Data (IPGOD2021), a publicly available data set that includes over 110 years of information on IP rights applications.
IP Australia said the annual update provided data quality improvements and leveraged its IP Data Platform to provide improvements to entity resolution processes.
“The data structure continues the harmonized schema adopted by IPGOD2020, presenting all four rights in the same way to ensure simplicity of data access,” IP Australia said.
“Data extraction methods have continued to be improved to maximize the accuracy, reliability and data coverage of the IPGOD product,” it said.
The Agency said IPGOD2021 contained the same data elements as the previous year’s data set, IPGOD2020.
It said information was available about both the current state of IP rights and the history of activities associated with IP rights, including insights into its business processes as well as the holdings and behaviour of applicants over time.
“To assist with this, organisation name variations have been batched and consolidated, so where applicants have provided variants of their name, these variations have been grouped together as a single applicant,” it said.
IP Australia said further data enrichments were planned which would focus on improving the research potential of the dataset by providing tables to answer common research questions.
IP Australia’s IPGOD2021 can be downloaded at this PS News link.
